About Plaid Oak

Life is plaid.

Varied and Interwoven.  Patterned and Orderly.  Inspiring and Enduring. 

PATTIE

Graphic Designer | Product Designer

I design stuff for those who, like me, love wildlife and the great outdoors. For the campers and the glampers, the travelers, hikers, kayakers, adventurers, and animal lovers.

Our family of six has camped and traveled a lot. We’ve camped in a 40′ MCI tour bus, in a vintage Airstream, in tents and in tiny cabins. With the Land Rover always on hand to take us into the wilderness, and back out again— in rugged comfort.

Plaid Oak Outfitters is a reflection of our family adventures with travel, life, camping, overland & wildlife designs.

With decades of graphic design, website design, and illustration experience, I’m happy to be able to use that experience in designing new products here. I’ll be adding new products consistently, so wander back often!

~Pattie

Plaid Oak Outfitters is a reflection of how one person views

the varied threads of this interwoven fabric called life.

Latest Blog Posts

Exodus & Introduction

Exodus & Introduction

by | Aug 15, 2020 | ,

This blog, though it has been very neglected, is about to come alive again as I meander through this strange year we call 2020. Hindsight? Maybe.Probably.As a sort of an introduction in how I started Plaid Oak Outfitters, or at least the art and design portion of the...

Introducing…

Introducing…

by | Jan 14, 2019 |

Oakie the Bear is the new Plaid Oak mascot! 🐻 Welcome to his world! Although, sometimes he just likes to have a few close friends over to enjoy some good food, and good conversation along with a warm drink. But, regardless of what each day holds, he is looking forward...

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”
―Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.”
―Frank Lloyd Wright
“Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
―Albert Einstein
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
―Socrates
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
―Robert Louis Stevenson
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”
―Jimmy Carter